Little Girls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDD EEFFDD GGHHDD IIJJDD| Whether you frolic with comrade boys | A |
| Or sit at your studies or play with toys | A |
| Whatever your station or place or sphere | B |
| For just one purpose God sent you here | C |
| And always and ever you are to me | D |
| Dear little Mothers of Men to be | D |
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| So would I guard you from all mean things | E |
| From the dwarfing of wealth and from poverty's stings | E |
| And from silly mothers of fuss and show | F |
| And from dissolute fathers whose aims are low | F |
| I would take you and shield you and set you free | D |
| Dear little Mothers of Men to be | D |
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| And then were the wish of my heart fulfilled | G |
| Around about you the world should build | G |
| A wall of Wisdom with Truth for its Tower | H |
| Where mind and body would wax in power | H |
| Till the tender twig was a splendid tree | D |
| Dear little Mothers of Men to be | D |
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| It is only a dream but the world grows wise | I |
| And a mighty truth in the dream seed lies | I |
| That shall gladden the earth in its time and place | J |
| WE MUST BETTER THE MOTHERS TO BETTER THE RACE | J |
| A dream nay a vision which all must see | D |
| Dear little Mothers of Men to be | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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